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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">NCES releases First Look on Public School Safety and Discipline: 2013–14<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">In the 2013–14 school year, regular public schools reported various safety and discipline practices, including 93 percent that controlled access
 to school buildings during school hours (e.g., locked or monitored doors), 75 percent that used security camera(s), 68 percent that required faculty and staff to wear badges or picture IDs, and 58 percent that enforced a strict dress code.
<em><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">“Public School Safety and Discipline: 2013–14,”</span></em> a First Look that provides nationally representative data on public school safety and discipline for the 2013–14 school year, presents results from
 a Fast Response Survey System (FRSS) survey. The survey collected information on specific safety and discipline plans and practices, training for classroom teachers and aides related to school safety and discipline issues, security personnel, frequency of
 specific discipline problems, and number of incidents of various offenses. Selected findings include:
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• Public schools provided training to classroom teachers or aides on topics such as safety procedures (95 percent), school discipline policies and practices on bullying (89 percent), positive behavioral intervention strategies (81 percent), and recognizing
 early warning signs of students likely to become violent (48 percent).<br>
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• Forty-three percent of public schools had some type of security personnel present at the school at least once a week. By instructional level, 29 percent of elementary, 63 percent of middle, and 64 percent of high school/combined schools had such personnel.<br>
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• Student bullying was reported to occur at least once a month at 37 percent of public schools and on occasion at 61 percent of public schools. By instructional level, student bullying was reported to occur at least once a month at 29 percent of elementary,
 56 percent of middle, and 42 percent of high school/combined schools. Student verbal abuse of teachers was reported to occur at least once a month at 10 percent of public schools and on occasion at 55 percent of public schools.<br>
This First Look is a product of the National Center for Education Statistics at the Institute of Education Sciences, part of the U.S. Department of Education.<br>
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